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We are students of Lakshmipat Singhania Academy, Kolkata, India. We are coming from different home towns and we present a small glimpse of our UNITY IN DIVERSITY.Coimbatore My Home Town Presented by S.Karishmaa Ninth Standard
My home town is Coimbatore “The Manchester of south India” is an Urban Metro, Industrial and second largest city in Tamil Nadu State, with a population including suburban area is 2.4 million & a population density of 17779 per.sq km.
Coimbatore City Map
Community : City population is predominantly Hindu along with sizeable –Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Jains and Marvaries. In Hindus majority is Gounders, Naickers (Naidu), and Chettiars.
Language: Tamil is the major and common language spoken. However community wise Naickers speak Telugu, Chettiars speak Kannada, Telugu. Majority of the People understand English and Speak English.
Location: Coimbatore lies at 11ºNorth Latitude and 77ºEast Longitude. At an elevation of 409 meters above sea level, is located 450 km away from Chennai the capital of Tamil Nadu. Coimbatore is situated in the banks of Noyyal River and is close to Siruvani dam. The city of Coimbatore has 9 lakes.
Transportation: Coimbatore is very well connected by Air, Rail and Road.
Climate: It experiences pleasing weather conditions. Coimbatore winters are mild and the summers are moderate. The mean maximum summer temperature is 34.7°C while the minimum temperature around these months is around 22.1°C. Winter temperatures hover very near to this a mean maximum temperature of 32.2°C and mean minimum temperature of 19.2°C in the winter months of December-January.
Industry : Coimbatore is the Textile and Engineering City of India. It has over 200 major textile mills and over 500 medium and small textile mills which includes spinning, weaving, bleaching, dyeing units, and garment units. Coimbatore is also famous for its Engineering industries, Automobile industry
Paper industries, Poultry industry, Wind mills, Coir Industry.There are also other industries like Sugar factories, Distilleries, Animal Feed Producing
Agriculture: Agriculture is one of the main occupation of the people. Cotton, Paddy, Sugar Cane, Coconut, Banana, Onion, Tomato and Maize are the major crops.
Sericulture is also one of the agricultural activity.
Education: Time and again, Coimbatore Schools & Colleges have proved their merit in the all India exams and have produced many eminent personalities.
Medical Services : Multi Specialty Health Services are available in Coimbatore, which include 15 Major Hospitals specialized in Heart, ENT, Kidney, Gastroenterology, Eye, Bone (Orthopedics), Gynecology etc., People throughout the country especially from East India and Bangladesh come here for the best affordable treatment.
Sports & Games
Coimbatore has produced many outstanding sports personalities, especially in Cricket,Vollyball, Foot Ball, Basket Ball,hockey, Tennis, Athletics and Motor Sports. Coimbatore has a Nehru Stadium for Football and Athletics. Coimbatore is proud of Naren Karthikeyan country’s No.1 formula race car driver, Nirupama vidyanathan, India’s Women’s Tennis star.
Worship: There are over 100 ancient and famous temples, churches, mosques etc.,
Tourism: Most visited places in & around Coimbatore are Indira Gandhi Wildlife Sanctuary, Black Thunder Amusement Park, VOC Park, over 10 waterfalls and reservoirs, hill joints include Ooty,Coonoor, Kotagiri, Top slip, Valparai, Kodaikanal, Munnar etc.,
Kolkata
The soft grass of the Maidan, the throng of the traffic, the drumming of the dhak, the divine smell of shiuli flowers, the ever rowdy markets, the lazy Sunday evenings at the coffee house, the ringing of the shrine bells at the Kalighat temple and last but not the least the unconquerable spirit of its residents makes Kolkata “The City of Joy”. This sea of humanity is located on the banks of the river Hooghly in West Bengal, India.
Foundation stone- But this is Kolkata as we know it today. Century’s back, in 1690, a British administrator called Job Charnock arrived on the banks of river Hooghly. His dream was to establish a trade centre for his establishment- ‘British East India Company’. He chose his location well being protected by the Hooghly River on the west, a creek to the north, and by salt lakes about two and a half miles to the east. There were three large villages along the east bank of the river Ganges, named, Sutanuti, Gobindapur and Kalikata.
Over the past three centuries this area has changed magnanimously. The biggest trade centre in East India became first the trade capital of India and then the capital of India. It was not until 1912 that the capital was shifted to Delhi.
Kolkata is always full of life. It’s an eventful and energetic city. There is something going on round the year - a festival, a wedding, a cricket or football match, a demonstration, a concert or (oh yes), a general strike (bandh). The wedding ceremonies are especially noteworthy. The well decorated marriage hall stands out like a lone shining star among its unprivileged surrounding. More spectacular are the Durga Puja and Kali Puja festivals in autumn when devotees and merrymakers deluge the city with outburst of fun and frolic. Magnificent decorations with colorful lights and loud music make these ceremonies outstanding.
Kolkata people-Do you know what gives Kolkata its energy? It’s definitely the people- we the Kolkatans. The reservoir of Kolkata people is very comprehensive consisting not just of Bengali people, but also a number of other ethnicities. People of Kolkata India can be divided into a number of categories, namely, Ghotis from West Bengal and Bangals from East Bengal, Biharis, Marwaris, Oriyas, Anglo-Indians, Chinese, Tamils, Telegus, Malayalees, Gujaratis,Punjabis, Assamese, Marathis, Parsees, Nepalese and Caucasian Europeans. But Kolkata is the home of the Bengalis - versatile in politics, sports lover, intellectual, romantic with a unique sensibility. To them every activity is a commitment of passionate intensity - be it a religious festival, soccer matches, political demonstrations, music, art, poetry reading, eating or adda (chat sessions). Kolkata breeds culture.
Inspite the fact that there are diversities in every nook and corner of the city, at the end of the day every single person living here is proud to call themselves a Kolkatan rather than identifying themselves according to their caste, breed and religion.
Utility services-The KMC supplies potable water to the city, sourced from the River Hooghly. The water is purified and treated at Palta water pumping station located in North 24 Parganas. Almost all of Kolkata's daily refuse of 2500 tonnes is transported to the dumping grounds in Dhapa to the east of the town. Agriculture on this dumping ground is encouraged for natural recycling of garbage and sewer water. Parts of the city still lack sewage facilities leading to unsanitary methods of waste disposal. Electricity is supplied by the privately operated Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation (CESC) to the city region, and by the West Bengal State Electricity Board in the suburbs. Frequent interruption of power supply was a problem until the mid 1990s; however the situation has since improved immensely with seldom power cuts occurring presently. The city has 20 fire stations (under West Bengal Fire Service) that attend to 7,500 fire and rescue calls on average per year.
Occupation- The city has a large unskilled and semi-skilled labour population, along with other blue-collar and knowledge workers. Kolkata's economic revival was led largely by IT services, with the IT sector growing at 70% yearly — twice that of the national average. Salt Lake sector V is the IT hub of the city. But recently the recession hit the IT sector badly, and many workers lost their job. This led to the rise of other industries like textile, leather and other food industries. The unemployed people with proper skills are being absorbed into other sectors. Recently many knowledge workers are leaning towards management and business skills. The people have become outgoing now. They take up jobs outside Kolkata too. Biotechnology is hailed as the next booming industry. People have started investing in businesses. The under-privileged children are still to be given the desired opportunities in the field of education. Government run schools are coming up with lucrative offers to persuade the parents belonging to the low income group to send their children to school. Women of the economically backward classes are becoming self-dependent with the development of handicrafts.
Communication-Kolkatans love to talk and stay connected. So tele-communication is a vast sector and various service providers work tirelessly to satisfy them with various talk plans and schemes. State-owned BSNL and private enterprises like Vodafone, Airtel, Reliance Communications, Idea Cellular, Aircel, Tata DoCoMo, Tata Indicom, Virgin Mobile and MTS India are the leading telephone and cell phone service providers in the city. Cellular coverage is extensive with both GSM and CDMA services being available. Broadband internet penetration has steadily increased with BSNL, Tata Indicom, Sify, Airtel, Reliance and Alliance being the leading service providers.
Transport:-Transport in Kolkata has two unique characteristics. Firstly, the Kolkata Metro, run by the Indian Railways, is the oldest underground system in India. It runs parallel to the River Hooghly and spans the north-south length of the city. The Metro Railways was recently expanded and now it runs from Kavi Nazrul, Garia to Dumdum. Secondly, Kolkata is India's only city to have a tram network, operated by Calcutta Tramways Company. The slow-moving tram services are restricted to certain areas of the city.
Bus services are run by both private and government sectors. Government is trying to increase the number of buses. Under the JNURM project, new and improved buses have been launched which ply through the streets at regular intervals. Traffic management has improved manifold.
Auto-rickshaws used to be a important mode of transport on the streets of Kolkata, but it caused a lot of pollution. These auto-rickshaws have been replaced by 4-stroke green LPG auto-rickshaws.
Hired forms of mechanised transport include the yellow metered taxis. Companies like Blue-Arrow and Mega-Cabs provide air-conditioned Indicas as taxi.
Kolkata has two major long distance railway stations at Howrah and Sealdah. A third station named Kolkata has been launched at Chitpur in early 2006. The city is the headquarters of two divisions of the Indian Railways-Eastern Railway and South Eastern Railway.
The Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport at Dum Dum to the north of the city operates both domestic and international flights. The airport is presently being upgraded to accommodate increased air traffic. Kolkata is also a major river port of eastern India.
The Kolkata Port Trust manages both the Kolkata and Haldia docks. There are passenger services to Port Blair in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and cargo ship service to various ports in India and abroad, operated by the Shipping Corporation of India. There are ferry services as well, connecting Kolkata with its twin city of Howrah.
Cuisine-Bengalis are great foodies. They love eating. Their authentic cuisine includes Steamed Hilsa (Bhapa Ilish), Chingrimacher malaikari, Daab Chingri, Lamb meat curry, Jhinge Posto etc. The Ghotis always argue with the Bangals- which is tastier? Prawns or Hilsa? But being adventurous by nature, they are ready to try anything from idly, dosa to makai-da-roti and sarso–da-saag, Mexican to Chinese, waffles to crepes and anything and everything that appeals to their taste buds. Bengalis are also addicted to street food like Phuchka, Jhal-muri, Bhel-puri, Batata-puri and most importantly rasagolla, sandesh and mishti doi (sweet yoghurt) as desserts. In extreme hot and humid weather people here sought to coconut water and soft drinks to beat the heat.
Climate-Kolkata has a tropical wet-and-dry climate . The annual mean temperature is 26.8 °C. Summers are hot and humid with temperatures in the low 30's and during dry spells the maximum temperatures often exceed 40 °C during May and June. Winter tends to last for only about two and a half months, with seasonal lows dipping to 9 °C – 11 °C between December and January. On an average, May is the hottest month in the city. Often during early summer, dusty squalls followed by spells of thunderstorm or hailstorms and heavy rains with ice sleets lash the city, bringing relief from the humid heat. These thunderstorms are convective in nature, and is locally known as Kal baisakhi.
Clothing- Bengali women commonly wear saree and men wear panjabi and dhuti as per local tradition, though a great acceptance to the casual Western attire have been found among the people. But during the festivals, the youth of Kolkata again start wearing their old cultural dresses and thus, revert back o their rich old heritage.
Major tourist attractions-Kolkata has many buildings adorned with Gothic, Baroque, Roman, Oriental and Indo-Islamic (including Mughal) motifs. Several major buildings of the Colonial period are well maintained and have been declared "heritage structures". Established in 1814, the Indian Museum is the oldest museum in Asia and houses vast collection of Indian natural history and Indian art. The Victoria Memorial, one of the major tourist attractions in Kolkata, has a museum documenting the city's history. The National Library of India is India's leading public library. Academy of Fine Arts and other art galleries hold regular art exhibitions.
Kolkata during Durga Puja-Durga Puja is the biggest festival held in Kolkata. This Puja is merry-making for some, bread-earner for many. All Bengalis wait eagerly for the 5 days of puja. These 5 days of puja brings a holiday from work, a break in the daily, boring routine. But some unfortunate people like the Police Force and Fire-men who strive endlessly and look after our well being do not get a holiday. They are always on their toes to make our lives smoother.
This Puja is also the Bread-Earner for the idol maker and associated other people who are attached to various other aspects of this festival. Tradition wise Bengalis always shop for new clothes during these months. So shop owners look forward to it too.
The experience of being a Kolkatan.
Team Members:-
1) Sounak Mitra 4) Adit Kabra
2) Soham Basu 5) Mudith Baid
3) Aniket Pasari 6) Siddhant Sethia
(all students of Lakshmipat Singhania academy, class viiI-b)
Bibliography-This project was completed with the help:-
The Internet(wikipedia.org, kolkataeducation.com)
Dhule
An industrial town Made by :Lakshya Daga
My hometown is Dhule in Maharashtra state in central India. The city of Dhule is the administrative headquarter of the district.
The Dhule dictrict previously comprised tracts of land predominantly inhabited by the tribal population. The Dhule district was then bifurcated on the 1st of July 1998 into two separate districts now known as Dhule and Nandurban, the later comprising the tribal region. Agriculture remains the basic profession of the population in the district. Most parts of the district are not under irrigation and thus cultivation heavily depends on monsoon and rainwater. Apart from Wheat, Bajra, Jowar and Onion the most favoured commercial crop is cotton. Majority of the people in the rural areas speak Ahirani(a dialect of Marathi) language, however Marathi is most widely spoken in the urban areas. Around 26.11% of the Dhule population resides in urban areas. The Dhule district is a part of Maharashtra’s historical region of Khandesh. Although for agricultural purposes it is now clubbed to Nashik division.
Hiatorical background
Dhule became part of the Mughal Empire in 1601, during the reign of Akbar. In the 18th century Dhule came under Maratha rule. In 1818, Dhule was annexed by the British, and was included in the Bombay Presidency. Dhule city is a well planned city, and it is believed that it was planned by Capt. James Briggs. After Indian independence in 1947, Bombay Presidency became Bombay State, which in 1960 was divided along linguistic lines into the new states of Maharashtra and Gujarat.
The ancient name of this region was Rasika. It is bounded on the east by Berar (ancient Vidarbha) , on the north by the Nemad district (ancient Anupa) and on the south by the Aurangabad (ancient Mulaka) and Bhir (ancient Asmaka) districts. Later the country came to be called as Seunadesa after king, Seunchandra of the early Yadava dynasty, who rule over it. Subsequently its name was changed to Khandesh to suit the title Khan given to the Faruqi kings by Ahmad I of Gujarat.
Business and Economy
In heyday it was one of the big centers for textile industry, with both spinning and weaving operations. Textile industry is still alive here though at much smaller scale than past.
The important environmental laws in Maharashtra
Water (prevention and control of pollution ). Act 1974: Air (prevention and control of pollution ). Act 1981: National Environmental tribunal Act 1995 and National Environmental Apellate Authority Act 1997.
State board are implementing the following programmes in Dhule :
Ø pollution control in 17 categories of highly polluting industries.
Ø pollution control from industries discharging waste water into rives and lakes.
Ø Restoration of environment quality in critically polluted areas.
Ø Bio-medical and management of municipal Solid wastes.
The population of Dhule is 17,09,948(2007).
The people of Dhule are warm, welcoming and are very good hosts. They love to eat spicy food. Their favourite food is Jowar and Bajra roti with spicy chilly pickle. The men of Dhule wear pajama-Kurta and Gandhi topi and the women wear the navwari sari in the dhoti style.
GUWAHATI, ASSAM ,INDIA
Made by-Kasturi TahlaniClass 9d
Guwahati is the largest commercial and industrial city of Assam.
With an area of about 216kmsq and density of about 3935km sq. It is an important halt for tourists before they head to the north eastern cities. The land of the mighty Brahmaputra and the gateway to northern India is renowned for its tea and the world famous one horned rhino. the monsoons are Assam's life blood ,creating a bio-diversity thet can be compared to the equatorial forests and painting the region with shades of green.
The original name of Guwahati was PRAGJYOTISHPUR meaning the City of eastern light, On account of it being an important kingdom during the Mahabharata period. It owes its present name to two assamese words ‘GUWA’ meaning areca nut and ‘HAAT’meaning market.
MUSEUMS:
OTHER FAMOUS SITES.
KAZIRANGA NATIONAL PARK.
Jaislamer The Golden City
Made by-Aditi Kabra
Rajasthan is one of the most colourful states of India. Everything in Rajasthan is fascinating-sand dunes,valleys,delicacy of places ,the temples, art and culture.
In the north-western part of Rajasthan which is known as Thar or the great Indian desert, Jaiaslmer was once the capital of Bhatti Rajputs. The city is constructed with yellow stones. All temples,palaces,forts in yellow stones. The city is based on ancient route of silk and spices laden caravans moving towards middle-east countries.Jaisalmer fort.Gadisar lake,Patwon-ki-Haveli,Jain Temples are the major attraction.
Jaisalmer is also famous for its desert festival being held in Jan/Feb every year.
Population-5,07,999
Crops-wheat,bajra,pulses Minerals-marble,gypsum,limestone
LEGEND
The History of Jaisalmer has a charm of its own. Like all other cities of Rajasthan, Jaisalmer too has its own glorious past to boast about. History of Jaisalmer draws heavily from the history of the Rajputana. The city is said to be founded by one Raja Rawal Jaisal, a Bhatti Rajput ruler, in approximately 1156 A D.
In medieval times, Jaisalmer continued to be on the focus of the masses because of its location. It falls in the way of one of the two routes, which connected India from Persia, Egypt, Africa and the west.
In the mid Thirteenth century, Ala-ud-din Khilji, the Turk-Afghan ruler of Delhi laid the siege over the city.
In the modern era, Jaisalmer was still a tough nut to crack and was the last among the Rajputana royals to sign the 'Instrument of Agreement' with the British establishment.
MARKETS
There are an endless number of markets(bazaars)in Jaisalmer with a huge variety of items. There are bazaars in each and every lane of the city.
The vast range of items that are on display in the markets are carved wooden boxes, camel leather products,antiques.joothies,rugs,puppets,shawls,silver jewellery,mirror work and many more.
There are shops in and around the Fort and Havelis as well. You cannot miss the distinct smell of leather emanating from the shops around the market place.
Ø BHATIA BAZZAR
Ø SADAR BAZAAR
PLACES TO HANG AROUND!
Sam Sand Dunes is amidst the Thar Desert. It is one of the most scenic spot in the world. One of the most popular places of tourist interest. The beauty of the desert is truly captivating. People enjoy camel rides (ship of the desert) in the desert.
JAIN TEMPLES-The Jain Temples inside the fort are beautifully cared for. This interlinked complex of seven temples stands in amass of secret boxes within boxes within the carved casket of the fort itself. There are 6,666 statues of the 24 jain prophets.
Haridwar, Uttar Pradesh
Made By: Sejal Agarwal
Markets
It is almost impossible to leave Haridwar without stuffing into your bags some of the most interesting and well craft item. Some
Made by-
Simran Sangani
Mumbai the capital of Maharashra is referred as the ‘Economic Power House of India'. It is cosmopolitan, warm and hospitable, truly a city of the world. It is a city of hopes and dreams. Most of all, Mumbai represents India's dream of itself.
It was originally a cluster of seven islands. The major island of the group Mumbadevi was passed on to Britishers in 1661 as part of the dowry when Catherine married Charles II of England. In 1665 the Britishers occupied all the seven islands and leased them to EIC.BY 1708 it had become the trading headquarters of the western coast of India. The 1800’s saw the turning point in the development of Mumbai.
India’s first train journey streaming off from Mumbai to Thane in 1853.
Hope you like our home towns and visit the places in soon.
Made by- Simran Sangani